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I reckon that OneNote’s being used by about a third of the people I see in meetings.\u00a0 And that means that about two-thirds of people are missing out!<\/p>\n

I’ve been a big OneNote fan for ages because OneNote conquered my personal chaos of unstructured notes and paper everywhere.\u00a0 For the last several years, I’ve been able to find things, and that’s brilliant.\u00a0\u00a0 But there is so much more, and I wanted to share how I use OneNote<\/p>\n

Most OneNote usage tends to be personal.\u00a0 It’s a notebook for keeping our own ideas and references.\u00a0\u00a0 I use it to take notes at meetings,\u00a0 to keep travel plans, or record ideas.\u00a0 Its that scratch pad that most people carry in their briefcase.<\/p>\n

But OneNote is so much more.<\/p>\n

[header2 text=”OneNote is a great tool for sharing notes with OTHER people<\/b>” align=”left” color=”#336A40″ margintop=””]<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a OneNote notebook that I share with my family – its got ideas for things to do on weekends, for walks we want to do or photos of things that inspire us – such as ideas to ‘borrow’ for our garden, or possible travel plans for the Christmas break.\u00a0 We can all access the notes, change them, amend them, or add our own ideas.<\/p>\n

I was recently considering a business acquisition.\u00a0 Rather than email back and forward, I shared a Notebook with my accountant, and between us we were able to analyse the opportunity and share our thoughts as they emerged,.\u00a0 It helped us speed up our work in a way that email wouldn’t have allowed.\u00a0 We had pages that covered their finances, our ratio analysis, discussions about the items that excited us and the ones that concerned us.<\/p>\n

Another example is a peer-group I belong to for work.\u00a0 There are 8 businesses like ours, all from different corners of Australia and NZ.\u00a0 We have pages to share meeting logistics, agendas, ideas and suggestions, and we keep adding it to when we meet every quarter.<\/p>\n

Aside from sharing, it\u2019s also useful for taking notes at seminars.\u00a0 Most new executive laptops are pen-focused and it\u2019s great for handwriting notes.\u00a0 I l love the way that OneNote can ready my terrible handwriting and text searches can even\u00a0 work across these scribbled comments.\u00a0 So it\u2019s the perfect tool at seminars and it lets you include photos from the laptop camera – so you can capture the PowerPoint slides rather than scribble them down quickly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But there is one caveat.\u00a0 Don’t make the same mistake I did<\/strong> – make sure your laptop has a front-facing camera.\u00a0 I spent about 10 minutes trying to turn on the front camera on my new laptop only to realise, belatedly, that it didn’t have one!<\/p>\n

[header2 text=”Be ready – One Note is changing<\/b>” align=”left” color=”#336A40″ margintop=””]<\/strong><\/p>\n

There won’t be OneNote 2019 when Office 2019 comes out – the native Windows 10 version will become the version to use.\u00a0\u00a0 Even as loyal users throw their hands up in horror, don’t worry – its getting improved and it’s already heaps better than it was.<\/p>\n

Here’s what you can expect to be released in the coming months:<\/p>\n